User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Overview
- Hardware Requirements
- Software Installation
- Caption/Subtitle Preparation
- A prepared final project
- The Captioning Process
- The Edit Window
- Now Let’s Get Your Feet Wet
- Retrieve Captions
- Roll-up Captioning
- Suggested Styles and Conventions
- Special Topics
- Import/Export Text & Caption/Subtitle Files
- ASCII Text (unformatted)
- ASCII Text (formatted)
- ASCII Text Files (Tab Delimited)
- Caption Center Files (.tds)
- Captions, Inc. Files (.cin)
- Cheetah Caption Files (.asc)
- Cheetah Caption Files (.cap)
- CPC-715 Online Files (.onl)
- DVD Caption Files (.scc)
- QuickTime/Podcast Closed Caption File (.srt)
- EBU Subtitle File (.stl)
- Ultech Files (.ult)
- Exporting ASCII Text Files
- Using International Character Sets with MacCaption
- Preparing Foreign Language Text
- Exporting Captions/Subtitles
- DV – 720x480 video
- NLE 720x486 Videos
- Avid Media Composer
- Notes on Animation Codec
- Add Captions using Avid ABVB Hardware
- Add Captions using Avid Express Pro
- Add Captions using Avid Meridien Hardware
- Add Captions using the Media 100
- Add Captions using Pinnacle Systems
- Add Captions using Pinnacle TARGA 3000 & Adobe Premier
- Add Captions using Blackmagic Design DeckLink Extreme
- MPEG-2 (DVD) 720x480 Video
- MPEG-2 (DTV/ATSC)
- HD Tapes
- HD/SD Captioning using Matrox MXO2
- HD/SD Captioning using AJA Kona
- Add Subtitles to Digital Videos
- Adding Captions to Videos for Webcasts
- Flash Video.
- YouTube/Google Video
- QuickTime Text Track
- QuickTime Movie
- Real Video
- Windows Media Video
- Importing Captions
- Captioning with an External Encoder
- Menus
- Preferences
- File Menu
- New Window/Close Window
- Edit Menu
- Display Menu
- Font
- Program A, B, C, D, E, F
- Show Caption Grid
- Show Safe Titles
- Show Time Code
- Display as Subtitles or Captions
- Caption Menu
- Encode Preferences
- Decode Preferences
- Set Caption Data Lowest Limit…
- Set Caption Data Lower Limit
- Set Decode Channel
- Attributes
- Convert Illegal Caption Characters
- Device
- Properties
- Initialize Device
- Close Device
- Send Caption
- Erase Caption
- Live Caption
- Live Caption Options
- Subtitle Menu
- Time Code Menu
- Format Menu
- Special Menu
- Windows Menu
- Help Menu
- Suggestions for Breaking Lines
- Selecting Multiple Caption Text Boxes
- Moving Caption Text in the Movie Window
- Suggested Styles and Conventions
- Copy to Program A
- From To
- Trouble Shooting
- Appendix
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<time begin="20.53" /><br/><clear/><i/>To indicate that<br/>I'm off screen,</i>
<time begin="22.20" /><br/><clear/><i/>whatever I say<br/>is italicized.</i>
<time begin="24.10" /><br/><clear/>Now my name appears at<br/>the bottom of the
screen,
<time begin="27.00" /><br/><clear/>we put captions<br/>of what I say at the top,
<time begin="29.50" /><br/><clear/>so that my name<br/>is not covered by captions.
<time begin="32.46" /><br/><clear/>Up until now, we have been<br/>using pop-on
captions.
<time begin="36.53" /><br/><clear/>When a new caption pops on,<br/>the old caption
disappears.
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Sample example of a .rm file (RealVideoDemo.rm)
If you wish to host this RealVideo with captions on the web, yon would need
to create another file .rm that should contain one line as below:
http://www.website.com/RealVideo/RealVideoDemoLink.smi
Hosting the RealVideo files on the web
Copy all four files to the folder RealVideo on your web site www.website.com:
RealVideoDemo.rm
RealVideoDemo.rt
RealVideoDemo.smi
RealVideoDemoLink.rm
Now make a link to the file RealVideoDemoLink.rm and when you click on this link,
RealVideo is going to be launched and display the video with captions.
Sample examples are available on the MacCaption distribution CD.
Windows Media Video
MacCaption produces text captions for Windows Media Player directly from the captions in the
Caption Text Area. Choose the Webcast > Windows Media Player option in the File Export
Menu to export Windows Media captions. MacCaption can play the video with captions in three
different ways. Simply upload the files created by MacCaption and the video in the same folder
on the web and make a link to the appropriate file.
You have three choices.
1. Play video with captions in standalone WMP. Two files .asx and .smi are created. Make a
link to the .asx file to see the Webcast with captions. To test the files, place all files (.asx,